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Hoody’s Hydration Calculator

Type in your dough formula and this little helper will work out your total hydration, dough weight, and baker’s percentages – including the flour and water in your starter.

Dough formula inputs

Use grams for best accuracy. Starter is counted as flour + water so your hydration actually matches what’s in the bowl.

Inputs

Flour added straight to the bowl – not including starter flour.

All water you pour in, not counting water already in the starter.

Active starter added at mix.

100% = equal flour and water. Lower is stiffer, higher is runnier.

We’ll calculate salt % based on total flour.

Hydration presets:
How it works: All flour (including starter flour) is treated as 100%. Water is your hydration %, and starter and salt are shown as baker’s percentages so you don’t have to do the maths.

Hydration & baker’s percentages

Updates as you tweak your numbers. Perfect for scaling up, changing hydration, or checking that today’s dough isn’t secretly soup.

Results
% H₂O
Overall dough hydration
Pop your dough details in to see your hydration.
Includes the flour and water from your starter, not just the base dough.
Total flour – g
Total water – g
Dough weight – g
Component
Baker’s %
Weight (g)
Flour (total)
100%
– g
Water (total)
–%
– g
Starter
–%
– g
Salt
–%
– g
Flour is always 100%. Water % equals hydration. Starter and salt % are based on total flour, including starter flour.